Wartime Quotes - Page 2

• Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

  Edmund H. North

  Emotional, Luxury, Painful

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• I call George W. Bush a radical because he is undertaking a fundamental transformation of our Constitutional system of government and of our longstanding policies that have been accepted for literally generations. He thinks to concentrate unaccountable power in the Executive. He thinks you alter the laws so that, as Commander in Chief, he can determine, under what he says are wartime conditions, what the laws are, which laws should be enforced, and declare by fiat what our policy should be, even abrogating longstanding international treaties.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Thinking, Law, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I feel a special kinship for our military. Because, unfortunately, I became a wartime president. And committed our military in the defense of our country to difficult assignments. I tell people all the time, I don't miss much about being president; I do miss looking in the eyes of people who volunteered to serve. And so not only do I feel a kinship, I feel an obligation and a duty to help.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Military, Eye

  Source: www.golfdigest.com

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• When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that Careless Talk costs Lives. It is equally true that Careless Lives cost Talk. Our careless lives set the outer world talking; and we give them grounds for talking in a way that throws doubt on the truth of Christianity itself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Talking, Giving

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• [The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires.

  Antonin Scalia

  Rights, Government, Rooms

  "Supreme Court Justice Bans Media From Free Speech Event". www.govtech.com. March 19, 2003.

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• The systemic incompatibility between free-market capitalism and the quality of democratic life and respect for human rights has to be modified to take account of such contextual variables as wartime, security threats, and the societal balance between entrepreneurial and working classes.

  Richard A. Falk

  Class, Rights, Quality

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I still think, perhaps I'm a bit old fashioned - that truth matters. I think truth matters particularly when it concerns an event of such horrendous quality. Holocaust was the worst, probably the worst massacre, if you'd like to call it that, in the world's history - considering the scale of it and the fact that it was done deliberately during wartime.

  David Irving

  Thinking, Holocaust, Quality

  Source: thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com

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• It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments' involvement in the deportation and murder of hundreds of thousands of its Jewish citizens. I found it outrageous that the Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly could participate in a ceremony honoring a Hungarian fascist ideologue

  Elie Wiesel

  Past, Government, Criminals

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• There were others, women with stories that were told in a quieter voice: women who hid Jewish children in their homes, putting themselves directly in harm's way to save others. Too many of them paid a terrible, unimaginable price for their heroism. And like so many women in wartime, they were largely forgotten after the war's end.There were no parades for them, very few medals, and almost no mention in the history books.

  Megan Chance

  Children, War, Book

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not have a real discussion of the emergency of climate change and why in fact we need a Green New Deal type national mobilization at the scale of a wartime mobilization in order to address this emergency.

  Jill Stein

  Real, Order, Addresses

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• The song Some Other Time is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.

  Betty Comden

  Song, Feelings, Emotion

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• To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says.

  Slavenka Drakulic

  Mother, Son, Parent

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• In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign resources existing in our expected sphere of influence, such as Sakhalim, China, and the Southern Pacific.

  Sadao Araki

  Order, Southern, Sphere Of Influence

  "Carriers in Combat: The Air War at Sea" by Chester G. Hearn, (p. 43), 2007.

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• My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

  Ian Hislop

  Mother, Witty, Clever

  "Ian Hislop: satirist in chief". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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• California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the land rush, the gold rush, the oil rush, the movie rush, the Okie fruit-picking rush, the wartime rush to the aircraft factories — followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful, moving sorrowfully homeward.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Country, Moving, Land

  Christopher Isherwood, James J. Berg, Chris Freeman (2001). “Conversations with Christopher Isherwood”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

  Philip Caputo

  Peace, War, Distance

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• A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen, a Chinese schoolmaster in Vietnam. This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it.

  Janice Y. K. Lee

  Book, Chinese, Stories

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• It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.

  Shelby Steele

  Fighting, Opportunity, Identity

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• As I have heard Bush say, only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness, in part because the epochal upheavals of war provide the opportunity for transformative change of the kind Bush hoped to achieve. In Iraq, Bush saw his opportunity to create a legacy of greatness.

  Scott McClellan

  War, Opportunity, Greatness

  Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, p.131, PublicAffairs

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• That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

  Nick Flynn

  Soldier, Surprise, Should

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• Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

  Henry Tizard

  Science, Waiting, Invention

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• Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of our foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.

  Freeman Dyson

  War, Heart, Airplane

  "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

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• Every person, whether in wartime or not, should keep a pistol and rifle in his house at all times. If a person is not going to protect himself, and wishes the government to do it for him, how can he complain when the government decides to protect itself against him, and executes him?

  William Powell

  Government, House, Wish

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", p. 93, 1971.

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• The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.

  Ben Macintyre

  Book, Men, Games

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• The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  President, Lasts, Wanted

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